Hello, Finally I was able to make a initial release of MetaL persistence module. There is a more detailed news release in the page below, but basically this a...
hello quiet list :-), a month ago i came up with the subject of associative query results. after a really busy time, last night i could finally spend some time...
Dear Manuel, Do you have any documentation on reverse engineering Metabase schemas? In particular, I'm interested in knowing what features are currently ...
There is a structural problem with the reverse engineering: It needs to be interactive. Other than that it does help a lot. I think the reverse engineering...
Hello Lucas, Thanks for the tips. I will checkout MDB's reverse engineering if time permits, although I would rather stick with Metabase at the moment. I have...
... time ... Fair enough. Hmm I am bit curious/confused ... the reverse engineering it not really meant for being integrated into applications but more to go...
Hi Lucas, My primary interest in reverse engineering is to make the lives of my fellow developers who are new to Metabase easier. They tend to forget that you...
... through ... have a ... database. ... hmm ok gotcha. Then you really need something like what I want for the MDB_frontend. Because then phpMyAdmin is not...
hi, this time i've a question about metabase xml schemas. i've built one for setting up my open source application. it contains both the schema and the...
... There is a little problem with this that I am not sure how to solve it. Some databases like Oracle, change the column names to upper case or even truncate...
Hello, ... Well this is a feature contributed by Jeroen Derks. I just tweaked the API and added the example. To test this properly it is needed a new test case...
Hello, ... You should always put in the was parameter what was in the name parameter in the .before XML file no matter how many times you rename it the field. ...
Hello, ... I can see your point but I would not advise that. The problem is that the reverse engineering of a field of a certain native data type may lead to...
Hello, ... Actually you can split your database schema in as many schemas files as you like. Just make sure that only the first to be installed set the ...
... for ... manager ... Yes ... I also had a user for MDB that had a 7mb dump. He wanted to move the data from one rdbms to another iirc ... It took a couple...
Hi, I just released MDB 1.0.1RC1. The two main new features are the new phpunit best testing framework that tests the MDB native methods (unlike the old test...
Hello, ... You are copying just the metal directort to /usr/local/share/metal . You need to copy also PHPlibrary and metabase directories to that same ...
Hi, well after messing up two releases (luckily accidentally labeled as "devel") I am very sure that this release is finally "stable" quality. changelog can be...
Manuel, I was copynig the three directories. I have just found out the problem: I have php configured not to accept the short tag notation: '<?'. It is a bit...
Hi, I have generated new MDB docs which you can find over at http://www.backendmedia.com/MDB/docs I am using PHPEdit to generate these docucments. There are...
Hello, Finally I made time to release a full blown application based on MetaL compiler persistence module. Here is the release announcement that may also be...
Hello, ... I am glad that you brought that up because I forgot to fix the problem. MetaL started to written in PHP 3 days before that was an option. Since I...
Hello, As announced last week, Metastorage is an application that generates customizable APIs made of classes that store and retrieve objects stored in...
Hi, I am coding on an application atm and I see myself frequently doing IN statements with data arrays that I gathered in a session. So you could do something...